Hutchy wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 04, 2025 10:01 pm

Hi all. Absolutely loving the fact that our unbeaten run against that lot goes on. However, it has to be said...as much as we love their demise, as much as we have laughed and enjoyed the past decade...what an absolute disgrace their owners are. Venky's really are the pits and I genuinely mean that as a keen football observer.

Let's put aside the rivalry, it being the bastards and any memories of what their fans were like back in the day for a minute, and look at it objectively as true football fans. Some absolute no marks from India turn up in 2010 and buy a well established Premier League club. They gut a squad containing some serious players like Salgado, Samba, Nelsen, Pedersen, Dunn (tosser). They employ a rotten scoundrel and let him and his agent run riot and subsequently get relegated. They then do NOTHING for the next 12 years to get the club back into the Prem, instead they lower the standards every year and have the club constantly look an embarrassment against their local rivals. No shame, no remorse on show. Not a care. They can't be bothered to attend a game. We would be livid if that was us and Venky's had wrecked our club in the same manner, let's be honest.

They (Venky's) then pass up opportunity after opportunity of trying to kick on for promotion with Rovers sat inside the top 6 for three January's running, being happy to just avoid relegation. They **** Mowbray off and then Tomasson by showing zero ambition and now Eustace is making similar noises about 'needing quality to come in'. He's in for major disappointment on that front. They don't do 'quality' because that means they have to spend something. Look at how utterly toothless they were in attack today. We could be playing until midnight and they still wouldn't have scored.

Beating them as regularly as we have done under the Venky reign is fantastic, but it is starting to feel a bit hollow to me. Does anybody else feel the same? It's like teams beating Man Utd comfortably today. Yeah, it's still Man Utd in name, but it is not THE Man Utd, therefore it isn't the same buzz. Man Utd today are a shitshow, a circus brought about by their owners. The same applies to Blackburn for me, though we can only beat what is in front of us. This is not THE Blackburn Rovers though. It is a fake imitation that has endured years of Venky's bullshit and is fighting with one arm tied behind its back. That's the truth of the matter.

Some may not agree, but I hate seeing any English club being treated like this by idiotic foreign owners who have no affinity or care for what they own. It's always the fans that suffer. Venky's are well in the race for being the worst owners in English football right now. At least the Reading guy is openly a *******. This lot's PR machine has them painted as being such generous people with their '£20m a year on running costs' spiel. Costs that they have caused and are responsible for!

What are your genuine views about Venky's? All jokes aside. I honestly don't think any club or fanbase deserves such rotten owners, not even them.

Hutchy wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 04, 2025 10:01 pm

Hi all. Absolutely loving the fact…..blah blah blah ……. club or fanbase deserves such rotten owners, not even them.

Anonymous Claret wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 04, 2025 10:52 pm

The OP is surely a Blackburn fan.

How any Burnley fan can have a negative opinion of The Venkys is insane. The Venkys have been sent from heaven.

I notice it was his/her first post on here. But if it really was a Burnley fan taking all that time to rant about the clown owners of his own club's bitter rivals please make sure someone carries out a welfare check.

Hutchy wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 04, 2025 10:01 pm

Hi all. Absolutely loving the fact that our unbeaten run against that lot goes on. However, it has to be said...as much as we love their demise, as much as we have laughed and enjoyed the past decade...what an absolute disgrace their owners are. Venky's really are the pits and I genuinely mean that as a keen football observer.

Let's put aside the rivalry, it being the bastards and any memories of what their fans were like back in the day for a minute, and look at it objectively as true football fans. Some absolute no marks from India turn up in 2010 and buy a well established Premier League club. They gut a squad containing some serious players like Salgado, Samba, Nelsen, Pedersen, Dunn (tosser). They employ a rotten scoundrel and let him and his agent run riot and subsequently get relegated. They then do NOTHING for the next 12 years to get the club back into the Prem, instead they lower the standards every year and have the club constantly look an embarrassment against their local rivals. No shame, no remorse on show. Not a care. They can't be bothered to attend a game. We would be livid if that was us and Venky's had wrecked our club in the same manner, let's be honest.

They (Venky's) then pass up opportunity after opportunity of trying to kick on for promotion with Rovers sat inside the top 6 for three January's running, being happy to just avoid relegation. They **** Mowbray off and then Tomasson by showing zero ambition and now Eustace is making similar noises about 'needing quality to come in'. He's in for major disappointment on that front. They don't do 'quality' because that means they have to spend something. Look at how utterly toothless they were in attack today. We could be playing until midnight and they still wouldn't have scored.

Beating them as regularly as we have done under the Venky reign is fantastic, but it is starting to feel a bit hollow to me. Does anybody else feel the same? It's like teams beating Man Utd comfortably today. Yeah, it's still Man Utd in name, but it is not THE Man Utd, therefore it isn't the same buzz. Man Utd today are a shitshow, a circus brought about by their owners. The same applies to Blackburn for me, though we can only beat what is in front of us. This is not THE Blackburn Rovers though. It is a fake imitation that has endured years of Venky's bullshit and is fighting with one arm tied behind its back. That's the truth of the matter.

Some may not agree, but I hate seeing any English club being treated like this by idiotic foreign owners who have no affinity or care for what they own. It's always the fans that suffer. Venky's are well in the race for being the worst owners in English football right now. At least the Reading guy is openly a *******. This lot's PR machine has them painted as being such generous people with their '£20m a year on running costs' spiel. Costs that they have caused and are responsible for!

What are your genuine views about Venky's? All jokes aside. I honestly don't think any club or fanbase deserves such rotten owners, not even them.

Hutchy wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 04, 2025 10:01 pm

Hi all. Absolutely loving the fact that our unbeaten run against that lot goes on. However, it has to be said...as much as we love their demise, as much as we have laughed and enjoyed the past decade...what an absolute disgrace their owners are. Venky's really are the pits and I genuinely mean that as a keen football observer.

Let's put aside the rivalry, it being the bastards and any memories of what their fans were like back in the day for a minute, and look at it objectively as true football fans. Some absolute no marks from India turn up in 2010 and buy a well established Premier League club. They gut a squad containing some serious players like Salgado, Samba, Nelsen, Pedersen, Dunn (tosser). They employ a rotten scoundrel and let him and his agent run riot and subsequently get relegated. They then do NOTHING for the next 12 years to get the club back into the Prem, instead they lower the standards every year and have the club constantly look an embarrassment against their local rivals. No shame, no remorse on show. Not a care. They can't be bothered to attend a game. We would be livid if that was us and Venky's had wrecked our club in the same manner, let's be honest.

They (Venky's) then pass up opportunity after opportunity of trying to kick on for promotion with Rovers sat inside the top 6 for three January's running, being happy to just avoid relegation. They **** Mowbray off and then Tomasson by showing zero ambition and now Eustace is making similar noises about 'needing quality to come in'. He's in for major disappointment on that front. They don't do 'quality' because that means they have to spend something. Look at how utterly toothless they were in attack today. We could be playing until midnight and they still wouldn't have scored.

Beating them as regularly as we have done under the Venky reign is fantastic, but it is starting to feel a bit hollow to me. Does anybody else feel the same? It's like teams beating Man Utd comfortably today. Yeah, it's still Man Utd in name, but it is not THE Man Utd, therefore it isn't the same buzz. Man Utd today are a shitshow, a circus brought about by their owners. The same applies to Blackburn for me, though we can only beat what is in front of us. This is not THE Blackburn Rovers though. It is a fake imitation that has endured years of Venky's bullshit and is fighting with one arm tied behind its back. That's the truth of the matter.

Some may not agree, but I hate seeing any English club being treated like this by idiotic foreign owners who have no affinity or care for what they own. It's always the fans that suffer. Venky's are well in the race for being the worst owners in English football right now. At least the Reading guy is openly a *******. This lot's PR machine has them painted as being such generous people with their '£20m a year on running costs' spiel. Costs that they have caused and are responsible for!

What are your genuine views about Venky's? All jokes aside. I honestly don't think any club or fanbase deserves such rotten owners, not even them.

ClaretPete001 wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 04, 2025 10:21 pm

I think Venky's have put over £200 million in to Rovers and up to the point they were stopped by the Indian gov't invested over £20 million season - doubling the turnover and allowing them to compete.

They maybe inept at running a football club but they have certainly invested in it.

Hutchy wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 05, 2025 12:28 am

There's a difference between truly investing and covering the bills/losses. How much of that £200m figure has been spent by Rovers in the transfer market over the past 14 years? A large bulk of that figure is Venky's covering losses that they have played a big part in causing. However, people just hear £200m and think "wow, I wish we had that, be grateful, who else would do that?".

That's what clever PR does. Why is it PR? Well, if we were to calculate what somebody like the Hemmings family has put into PNE over the past 10 years to cover the bills I.e £10m per season, it would come out at around £100m. Yet there is no narrative out there saying "but Hemmings has invested £100m into PNE". That would be a false narrative, as the PNE ownership has made no serious attempt at promotion. The £100m figure could be used by some fans to try and silence any dissenting PNE fan voices though. That's what people are doing with unhappy Rovers fans, who are dismayed at seeing their Premier League club dismantled by these inept owners.

Also, the Indian Gov issue has nothing to do with tax as another poster suggested. They are being investigated by the Directorate of Enforcement, an arm of the Indian Gov tasked with looking into cases of...?

As it stands, Venky's can't send funds to Rovers without Indian court permission and without putting an equivalent amount into a bond with the court over there. Say they want to send £10m to Rovers, it's going to cost them £20m in total. They also have to provide a full breakdown of what exactly the money is going towards. This is why the Rovers transfer windows have been even cheaper shambles than normal recently where they scrimp around for frees and loans. Venky's are choosing not to send funds.

They have another Hearing due in India middle of this month where they are trying to get the bond requirement removed. How can a club try to go for promotion when there's all this going on? In no way are they good for Rovers, as amusing as their running may be from our point of view.

steve1264b wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 04, 2025 10:59 pm

I wish we had an owner who put in 10m a year, kept a cat a youth acedamy.

Pickles wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 04, 2025 11:26 pm

Beating them is hollow?

Here's something. If Rovers were playing on a park in Darwen against the Dog & Duck and somehow miraculously got to the FA Cup Third round and were drawn against us... then I'd still get a buzz about beating them.

For what it's worth, what goes around comes around and it's a nice serendipitous moment that Rovers fans have experienced both sides of the football finance coin.

Wile E Coyote wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 05, 2025 12:43 am

anywhere you care to stick a pin in the leagues there is corruption, its just a matter of who and why we want to scr.utinise. We never had the colossal cash injection rovers had. Its laughable that their dim witted fans even refer to us in terms of finance. That said, the entire structure of modern football can be described as rotten. Venkys dont have a monopoly on being unscrupulous

DCWat wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 05, 2025 12:34 am

Oh, I know, I’ll add a quick “from our point of view” on to the end of my rant about Venky’s, that’ll throw them!